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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
If it’s not going to be Game of Thrones, it should stop using the Game of Thrones theme song.
Look, the problem isn’t that it’s “not game of thrones”.
The problem is it’s boring.
What’s your favourite line?
Who’s your favourite character?
What story thread are you enjoying?
If you were recommending this to a friend who’d never seen any of the preceding story, what would you tell them?
And knowing that the first five episodes contain a pregnant woman begging for her life before a fatal c-section and a romance between blood relatives that culminates with an encounter in a brothel, does that impact who you recommend it to?
The complaints about pregnant women not moving fast bely a larger issue - the tension in that scene is entirely the result of the audience knowing “this is a show that kills babies and pregnant women - I don’t want to see that. Please don’t make me see that. Oh thank god that didn’t happen. Wow, wasn’t that intense?”
No. That wasn’t intense. It was manipulative, and gross.
Which is Westeros for you.
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I think people are forgetting what the original GoT episodes were like. The first episodes features Jaime doing Cersei doggy style and then pushing Bran out a window. All of the characters were kind of pieces of crap. You had brothers using witches to kill each other, Joffrey abusing women, needless executions, a pregnant woman being stabbed in the belly, etc..
The only really good characters, who actually survived, in the first few seasons of GoT were the children and Dany (who was still a child). But they were all basically used as plot devices so that they could be victimized by the bad characters.